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Translation

shǒu = sh + ou3: head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

Mnemonic

In the outhouse’s living room (ou3), the chief (首) lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes (sh). Sherlock smokes the weed (䒑) in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror (自), thinking that he’s uber cool and that he’d pass as a quite formidable chief himself.

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Comments

Ha ha it added a coffee mug to the chief. Classic.

Matthias, 10 days ago

首 character breakdown

Component Translations
cǎo = c + ao3
alternative form of 艸 (grass)
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= z + Ø4
self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely
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Characters with 首 as component

guó = gu + o2
(literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy
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Words with 首

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prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
to give oneself up / to surrender (to the authorities)
the most important / of chief importance
Sentences with 首
jīn
 
 
ǎn
lǎo
sūn
dào
zuò
le
shǒu

Prompt snippets

The chief is a police chief, a middle-aged man wearing a crisp, navy-blue wool uniform adorned with polished silver badges, gold-braided epaulets, and a stiff peaked cap. His face features deep-set eyes and a neatly trimmed gray mustache, with a heavy leather utility belt cinched around his waist.

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